Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Roland Barthes

...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...

John Geddes

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber, Corporation Nati

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice Walker

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous

Samuel Johnson

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

R. Turnbull

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

Kiefer Sutherland

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Robert Casey

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock